Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander,
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, directed by David Yates and written by Steve Kloves & J.K. Rowling (2022).
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Remember the old interviews of Rowling saying that Gellert is like Albus’ ‘dark twin’, a morally bankrupt version, and the several times she’s mentioned that they saw in each other qualities that they shared with no one else?
Now, think of the Qilin’s walk. Gellert can only be chosen by the dead/corrupt Qilin but he craves to be chosen by the real one. He believes in the righteousness of his cause and he always sees himself and Albus as equals. When the real Qilin chooses Albus he’s not even angry because he does not oppose that choice. He understands it. Yet he genuinely believes that he’s the best of the other candidates.
When the Qilin chose Santos, Gellert didn’t just snap because he lost the election. There was something very specific in the wording of Albus’ plea for a second choice: “Just as two of you were born that night, there’s another here, equally worthy.” Gellert always sees himself and Albus as binary stars and he cannot stand how the Qilin as an ‘impartial judge’ disrupts this idea because he feels that it’s one of the last threads that his connection to Albus is hanging from.
Before that, when the alive Qilin is calling out to the dead one, Newt says: ‘She can’t hear you little one, not here, but perhaps somewhere she’s listening’. Considering how FB works a lot with metaphors, it breaks me to think how Albus too tries to make Gellert hear him, in the sense of seeing reason. There is something broken in twisted in Gellert too, so he can’t ‘hear’ Albus right then, but some part of him IS listening and that’s the very part that will come to the surface when he will ultimately surrender and show remorse.
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I know it is the SAME scene from the movie but shown at different angles BUT DAMN MY FEELS! Gellert get a grips damnit you are a super villain damn 🥲 I almost feel bad for him even tho he IS an abusive husband, damn even his last line to Albus was a textbook manipulative sociopath line XD still I ship them 🥹
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Lips parted, eyes closed, head down. Gellert's longing evident. He shows more vulnerability than Albus whenever jumps from being cruel to friendly. Part of him didn't assume how much he loves that man and struggles to demonstrate and to hide it. As if young Gellert was still there, fighting against his villain self for Albus. Look, he couldn't break the physical touch, his love language
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you have no idea how much I love this moment. Imagine how happy he must have been to see Albus again.
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